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Comment clean hard-drive? (Score 1) 166

by iariar (#16769731) Attached to: Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive
so what would happen if you gave them a clean, freshly installed hard-drive that's just been used to view these particular spam mails in your webmail? I imagine they'd moan that it had been formatted to the judge, but then you get another forum to state that the emails are not stored on the hard-drive they are stored on the hard-drives of the webmail provider and that the other defense counsel is simply hand-waving. how annoyed would the judge be at that sort of tactic?

UK Think Tank Calls For Fair Use Of Your Own CDs 241

Posted by CmdrTaco from the fair-use-i-think-it's-called dept.
jweatherley writes "The BBC reports that a UK think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has called for the legalization of format shifting. In a report commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, they state that copyright laws are out of date, and that people should have a 'private right to copy' which would allow them to legally copy their own CDs and DVDs on to home computers, laptops and phones. The report goes on to say that: 'it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have. That is the job of government.' The report also argues that there is no evidence the current 50-year copyright term is insufficient. The UK music industry is campaigning to extend the copyright term in sound recordings to 95 years."

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